Open Source iTunes Alternatives for iPad

There are many alternatives to iTunes for iPad and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best open source iPad alternative is Pocket Casts. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to iTunes and three of them are open source and available for iPad so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source iPad alternatives to iTunes are Volumio and Madsonic.

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  1. Pocket Casts icon

    Pocket Casts

     239 likes

    Podcast player supporting streaming and downloads, advanced search, cross-device 'Up Next', improved discovery, playback effects, and offline listening essentials.

    122 Pocket Casts alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Android Auto
    • Android Wear
    • Apple Car Play
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    Pocket Casts vs iTunes Comments
    vasbinde
    Negative
    1

    Pocket Casts is a great program, but it is purely focused on podcasts, not on audio and video player and library management. For example, it cannot rip audio CDs or play movies.

    ccier7u87wl2pvvz7o
    Negative
    0

    It's just a podcast player

    • Pocket Casts is Freemium and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
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    Volumio

     12 likes

    Volumio is a free and Open Source Linux Distribution, designed and fine-tuned exclusively for music playback. It runs on a variety of devices, typically small and cheap computers like the Raspberry PI, but also on low power PCs, notebooks or thin clients.

    163 Volumio alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  4. Madsonic icon

    Madsonic

     21 likes

    Madsonic is a web-based media streamer and jukebox fork of Subsonic Based on Java technology, Madsonic runs on most platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, OSX, and Unix variants.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Kindle Fire
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